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...depth of Rice?s quandary had already been coming through in subtle ways. At times, she seemed to cling to dry diplomatic jargon. ?We?re making real progress on a political framework,? she said at one point.? At another, she said, ?We also have to realize that we cannot have a? circumstance in which there is a return to the status quo ante.? ?Now, I think the Security Council will take this up,? Rice said, apparently attempting to look forward to the infamously dilatory world of U.N. diplomacy in positive terms. ?We want the Security Council to take...
...while the framework of a deal may be emerging, getting all the principal players on board to close it will be one of the major diplomatic challenges of our time...
...China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang. The gap between the U.S.'s priorities and the rest of the world's stretches beyond those two challenges. The war on terrorism has provided a neat ideological framework for U.S foreign policy in the Bush years, but it has distracted the attention of the U.S. from developments in other areas--Asia, Russia and its former satellites, and Latin America--where new international systems are being built without the U.S. as their builder. For most outside the U.S., the threat...
...strategy that lasted more than a half-century, in part because Truman, his successor, adapted his policies to the changing situation at the end of the war by adding the Marshall Plan and NATO to contain Soviet power. Subsequent cold war Presidents made incremental changes within that strategic framework...
...wonderful way of taking different ideas and bringing them together into a conceptual framework,” Berolzheimer said yesterday in an interview...